Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: <1991Jun16.045123.17203@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University References: <1991Jun7.233654.24493@news.iastate.edu> <244@touch.touch.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1991 04:51:23 GMT In article <244@touch.touch.com> mikeh@touch.touch.com (Mike Haas) writes: >In article micke@slaka.sirius.se (Mikael Karlsson) writes: >>In article <1991Jun7.233654.24493@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: >>>[..] >>> The Amiga's clipboard cannot be fixed, as it is too unsupported and >> >>Marc, I think this is the first time I've seen you state something > >Y'know, guys, if we just IGNORE him, he'll probably go away. :-/ > We tried that already. Didn't work. 8-) Marc is really amazing. Sometimes he points out important things (not that they haven't been pointed out before, though). The amount of R&D spending and need for DIG/24-bit are very important factors. But what is equally amazing is the amount of blatant lies/errors (I don't know which) which he regularly comes out with. The most recent example being his statement that the Clipboard was designed from the beginning to only handle ASCII. I still remember when within a 48 hour period he posted SEVEN articles all lambasting the Amiga for not having 24-bit graphics. That was the one he ended with "Call me an asshole if you want." Most people did. 8-) -- Ethan Now the world has gone to bed, Now I lay me down to sleep, Darkness won't engulf my head, Try to count electric sheep, I can see by infrared, Sweet dream wishes you can keep, How I hate the night. How I hate the night. -- Marvin